ALPHAS - KANSAS CITY STAR: 'Alphas' star David Strathairn on why he continues to work as an actor
By LUAINE LEE
Jul. 05, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. - Actor David Strathairn, who's played everything from Edward R. Murrow to a child abuser, pursues acting because he always learns something from it.
"If I'm fortunate enough to get involved in a project that has some pretty good legs under it, people have given thought to it, you're going to learn something," he says, seated in an olive velvet armchair in the lobby of a hotel here.
"In theater I've always learned something about the particular world that the play is about - whether it's 1906 outside of Moscow in a Chekhov play, or an Arthur Miller play. Of course, Shakespeare is extraordinary..." he says.
... His latest quest is the Syfy series, "Alphas," premiering July 11. Strathairn says he was intrigued by the challenge. "It's something I've never explored, developing a character that could have mutations anywhere along the road that would be embraced or not. It's a real wide landscape of character development. Then I really liked what they're trying to do with the series, which is to explore people who have these neurological anomalies that are very plausible.
"It's not, by any means, a superhero sci-fi thing. It's dealing with very day-to-day problems we all have," says Strathairn, who plays neurologist Dr. Lee Rosen, a scientist overseeing a government project to ferret out people with singular abilities..."
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